Data Mining & Analytics Engineer, Senior; Security Clearance Required

ICF is actively recruiting for an experienced Senior Data Mining and Analytics Engineer to support the research and development of new cyber analytic capabilities that will help the US protect and defend its networks and critical information systems. The successful cleared candidate will act as a Senior Data Mining and Analytics Engineer to support a large federal cyber security analytic program.

Your work will contribute to the knowledge of how cyber‑attacks work, how vulnerabilities are exploited, and the way hostile cyber actors operate. Utilize your skills to help experiment and prototype future cyber capabilities for implementation at large-scale. This role is primarily telework‑based with occasional meetings at client locations (Arlington, VA or Pensacola, FL) or at ICF facilities within the Washington, DC metro area.

• Perform knowledge elicitation from customer subject matter experts and convert that to build analytic solutions
• Design, engineer, and optimize sustainment of large‑scale distributed computation platforms and supporting environment (ecosystems) for various stakeholders, business owners, and industry partners
• Manage teams of system administrators, prioritize work, identify high‑risk critical problems, and dedicate appropriate resources
• Oversee the transition of services from third‑party vendors to the analytic environment and be responsible for ad hoc and formal end‑user training
• Identify applicable data to perform analytics and create solutions to acquire, transform, and load or correlate data components to and from the analytic environment
• Develop custom data modeling procedures to assist with data mining, modeling, and production
• Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques
• Develop processes and tools to monitor and analyze model performance and data accuracy
• Interpret and communicate results to non‑technical customers

• Bachelor’s degree with 12+ or Master’s degree with 10+ years of experience in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related field
• Working experience and advanced knowledge of cyber threats, tools, techniques, and processes
• Demonstrated experience in data modeling and working with datasets of all sizes using a variety of data mining and data analysis methods/tools
• Active security clearance required as part of client contract requirements
• Due to the nature of the work and contract requirements, US citizenship is required

• Practical experience with the Databricks Intelligence Platform
• Interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively with various clients in order to explain and elaborate on technical details
• Experience in developing analytic tools, processes, and governance for storing, modeling, capturing, and delivering data to the client’s enterprise
• Experience with computational notebook software such as Zeppelin or Jupyter
• Experience with the application of visual analytics to computational analytic results
• Fluency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, JavaScript, R, etc.)
• Experience with database querying like SQL
• Readiness to collaborate with engineering teams, product teams, and customers to develop prototypes and software products
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Cloud Practitioner or higher desired
• CompTIA Security+ or higher cybersecurity certification preferred

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We are an equal opportunity employer and we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Reasonable accommodations are available.